It is not ironic. Heinlein was basically advocating for Fascism.
Paul Verhoeven's 1997 Starship Troopers is very blatant satire of Fascism, though a lot of people missed it at the time. Allegedly he never even read the book, just paged threw a few lines and said "This is fascist trash!" then threw it away.
I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring … It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book
-Verhoeven, on the book
I read it when I was much younger (and more blind to the political themes), but it wasn't terribly interesting to me either. So much of it was dry and needless to my memory
It is not ironic. Heinlein was basically advocating for Fascism.
Paul Verhoeven's 1997 Starship Troopers is very blatant satire of Fascism, though a lot of people missed it at the time. Allegedly he never even read the book, just paged threw a few lines and said "This is fascist trash!" then threw it away.
That's actually hilarious.
-Verhoeven, on the book
I read it when I was much younger (and more blind to the political themes), but it wasn't terribly interesting to me either. So much of it was dry and needless to my memory